RE: God and Science quotation: Maybe, maybe not.
My Hebrew teacher of years ago - a native Israeli Jew of Tel Aviv who had degrees in both Hebrew and English - would disagree, especially on the usage of Yom.
I have backgrounds in both science and theology; I am not therefore especially impressed by either one, after all the personal egotism and political corruption that I have witnessed to permeate both.
As with so-called global warming, the fix is in: Scientists cook the data, exaggerating favorable information and ignoring contradictory information. Science today is mostly Scientism: A belief system designed to deny a Creator and Law, and to promote global collectivism.
If you want to believe what you posted, then go ahead; I believe in that freedom. Just do not expect me to be particularly persuaded. Neither you nor any of these other “scientists” were present to witness the Creation, or to witness so-called Evolution. It is all, in the end, sophistry and propaganda; it certainly is not true replicable science.
I believe in a God who actually can transcend nature and science. Denigrate me as stupid or simple if you like (although my 150+ IQ would not cooperate).
My opinion of people like yourself and the website you linked is that you are so desperate to appease the fallen prophets of Scientism that you will complicate and rationalize anything in the Bible to accommodate people who will regardless think anyone remotely religious is ignorant and irrational.
It reminds me of a highly-educated theologian I once knew who sought to truncate a debate by interjecting, “There’s no scientific evidence for that.” My immediate thought was: Do you really want to invoke “science” as an authority when “science” says you are an idiot for believing in the Risen Christ?
Science has led us astray - and departed from Natural Law - too many ways and too many times for me to have much confidence in it. The scientific method is a tool, and that is all; it is not God. A tool - like a gun - can be used well or ill. Since most of the users these days are dedicated leftists who hate the thought of inalienable rights and natural law, I do not trust them.
I neither said I believe what I posted or even gave credence to the website I linked to. Rather I went looking up if the Bible actually made reference to the 6,000 year claim, because I believed the person who I was responding to was correct. That there is no mention that the earth is 6,000 years old in the Bible. I thought what I read was interesting, and decided to share. Nothing more, nothing less.
I believe in God, and while I prefer Christianity, I tend to reject religions, for the very reasons you stated. The same holds true with junk science, of which we get more of these days, than actual science. After all, junk science only requires a theory, whereas real science requires actual proof.
BTW, unless you were around to witness the Creation, than how is it possible for you to accept or reject anything on the subject matter? Faith is our only guiding light.
I'm am so glad you believe in freedom as well. At least your intellect hasn't given you false reading on that topic.